Operating Performance Indicators

The Potential respective the Production in MWh/a for the different cases.

Full-load Hours are a measure of utilization for technical facilities. A wind turbine with installed Power of 3 MW produces 7'000 MWh electricity. The maximum Full-load Hours are then 7'000 MWh / 3 MW = 2'333 h/a. The generated energy corresponds to the energy the wind turbine would generate if it would produces these 2'333 h/a with maximal Power and the rest of time it would produce nothing. In reality, the facility will produces with reduced Power, but over more hours.

Full-load Hours are shown in hours per year (h/a).

The Capacity Factor shows how many hours the Production Unit has to work on Full-load.

The Capacity Factor is shown in percentage as number of operating hours from number of hours per year.

The produced energy over the whole Project Lifetime in MWh.

Sum of all Opex entities over the Project Lifetime.

Costs of all Opex entities per installed Power in MW.

Costs of all Opex entities per produced Unit in MWh.

Opex in percentage of all Sales over the whole Project Lifetime

Costs of individual Opex entities over the Project Lifetime.

Costs of individual Opex entities per installed Power in MW.

Costs of individual Opex entities per produced Unit in MWh.

Individual Opex in percentage of all Sales over the whole Project Lifetime